I haven’t tried my hand at Ubuntu Brainstorm again yet, but I have been keeping up on all the ideas.  I’m quite happy to see that the Brainstorm site has been beefed up a bit with categories  and some other goodies.  I’ve been going through and moderating on some ideas.  One thing of note, however… I am still quite amazed at how many posts have the words “by default” in them.  This tells me a couple of things.  One, a lot of the defaults suck.  Two, it must be perceived as rather inconvenient or difficult to change those defaults.  I would think that it’s really a combination of the two.  A lot of the defaults are probably picked by whoever wrote the particular piece of code, and the systems for managing options seem to be hit and miss.  All too often we have to drop to an esoteric .config file and change something, and on top of that, it takes everything up to and including a reboot to see the new default in question.  And still at other times, even if I have a GUI for managing options, it still generally seems to let me shoot myself in the foot.  But so it goes… for now.